Back in 2007, the city completed a project to put a pedestrian underpass under Camelback Road between two busy shopping and business areas near 24th street. On one side of the street is Biltmore Fashion Park, a shopping and dining center and on the other side of the street is The Esplanade, an office and entertainment complex. There were at least 3 fatalities along that area caused by pedestrians trying to cross busy Camelback Road where there was no traffic light or crosswalk.
The city decided to put this underpass in place to help relieve the urge to try to cross the street in a dangerous spot. The underpass has a pretty tiled floor and is lit at night so that it's not a dark tunnel. It gets a lot use from shoppers and diners between the two centers.
I took these two photos, one in the daytime and one at night. You can see more photos from the architect's site.
7 comments:
That's the prettiest underpass (here it would be called a subway) that I've ever seen!
I hope it gets a lot of use, that it is kept clean, and safe.
No tagging? It looks wonderful, Sharon.
Such a beautiful realization!
What a beautiful way to solve a dangerous situation. There are a couple underpasses at Lake Shore Drive in Chicago to get pedestrians over to Lake Michigan and they are tagged with graffiti.
That is a well kept underpass and looks fantastic.
It's a beautiful underpass, not like the dirty and unsafe ones here.
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